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Friday, 9 November 2012

What ONCE Is All About - Up-Cycled Craft

I am an addicted collector of vintage children's books, however, sometimes I find books that cannot be salvaged and re-loved, but they also cannot be left there to rot so I bring them home and try to breathe last life into these beautiful items. I always use the actual item and not a scanned copy of the page as there is something so special about the print quality, paper stock and aging marks of the original page. Here are some of the things I have made from these books that will be on sale through ONCE.

Darren and I met in London eighteen years ago. At the time he was a handsome poet, he is now a handsome cynic. I was a skinny feminist, I am now a plump realist. Along the way we got married and had two beautiful boys. Our interests and obsessions have slowly merged and ONCE is our first communal venture.